RENSSELAER — Thirty-five trees were recently destroyed throughout the city of Rensselaer in April, many of them diseased.
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• WEED WRANGLE: The Jasper County Invasives Initiative (JCII) and its partners will hold its first Weed Wrangle in Jasper County on May 15. The event will occur from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., CST, at the Prairie Border Nature Preserve in Wheatfield located at county roads 11713 North and 400 East.
RENSSELAER — The Rensselaer City Council will meet Monday, May 10 at 6 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers.
With the agricultural season (hopefully) getting into full swing here soon, this means that pesticides will begin being applied throughout the county.
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Jim Pint is smiling because he learned he was named the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association’s District 2 Coach of the Year.
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JASPER COUNTY — A Wheatfield man faces a long list of charges after Jasper County Sheriff’s deputies reported finding him hiding in the back of a truck.
JASPER COUNTY — A Hammond man hiding behind a dumpster in rural Jasper County was arrested for theft and false identifying by the county’s sheriff’s department on April 7.
RENSSELAER — After a 1-8 start, Rensselaer Central’s softball team has now won three of its last four with a Thursday, May 6 15-3 rout of visiting North Judson.
RENSSELAER — Rensselaer Central has lost five of its last six games, falling at home to Hebron, 3-2, on Thursday, May 6 in a preview of a potential sectional match-up later this month.
RENSSELAER — Rensselaer Central jumped out to a 4-1 lead over rival Kankakee Valley in softball action Monday night.
RENSSELAER — Kankakee Valley’s girls’ track team used outstanding depth to remain unbeaten in multi-team track meets this spring, winning the annual Gene Edmonds Relays at Rensselaer Central o…
The IHSAA has made a mess of the Class A softball tournament for local teams again this spring, sending teams in all directions.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Bed bugs tuck themselves away into dark, unseen spaces and multiply rapidly, making them difficult to control.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has named Purdue University as the new host of the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC). Beth Hall, Indiana stat…
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For astronauts to go on long missions to the moon or Mars, they’ll need a refrigerator.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Meteorological spring is here, with predictions by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) covering March, April and May.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For thousands of years, humans have altered — often negatively and inadvertently —microbial communities in a quest to improve agricultural crops.
With the agricultural season (hopefully) getting into full swing here soon, this means that pesticides will begin being applied throughout the county.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Farm Bureau, the state’s largest general farm organization, will host four educator workshops this June for any interested K-12 teachers and Agriculture in the Classroom…
Many residents woke up to a sight last week they would rather not see in the spring: a blanket of snow.
RENSSELAER, Ind. — Susie Benner, Banking Center Manager at First Merchants Bank in Rensselaer, will retire on Friday, April 30.
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